A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)
Dunwich in winter has an air of solitude, of time-frozen bleakness, that is best appreciated in
front of a roaring fire in a crowded pub with a pint of Adnams, the Sunday paper and a pie.
This photograph of the in-shore fishing boats on the beach has been given an old-fashioned
gum- bichromate look from the 1930s, which used a mixture of watercolour pigments, gum
arabic and ammonia on sized paper. As a photography student, I never got round to any of
these ancient techniques, but with digital you can now get a rough approximation of the end
result. Here I've kept the colouration subtle, rather than unduly warm up this freezing day on
the East Coast. Listen carefully and you can all but hear the opening bars of Britten's 'Sea
Interludes' from 'Peter Grimes'.
I once shot a film for a BBC producer on 'The Herring and its Influence on European History',
being attracted as much by the title as anything else. One sequence was shot with me
hanging over the side of a Lowestoft trawler in the North Sea holding an £80,000 broadcast
camera, secured only by the sound-recordist holding onto my belt while the producer held onto
him. The crew hauled in the net by hand, with not a single fish in it, let alone a herring. It
was a scene straight out of a gritty Michael Grigsby documentary from the 1960s when the
North Sea fishing industry was already in decline. It's a wonder anybody now catches
anything at Dunwich, apart from pneumonia.
Dunwich in winter has an air of solitude, of time-frozen bleakness, that is best appreciated in
front of a roaring fire in a crowded pub with a pint of Adnams, the Sunday paper and a pie.
This photograph of the in-shore fishing boats on the beach has been given an old-fashioned
gum- bichromate look from the 1930s, which used a mixture of watercolour pigments, gum
arabic and ammonia on sized paper. As a photography student, I never got round to any of
these ancient techniques, but with digital you can now get a rough approximation of the end
result. Here I've kept the colouration subtle, rather than unduly warm up this freezing day on
the East Coast. Listen carefully and you can all but hear the opening bars of Britten's 'Sea
Interludes' from 'Peter Grimes'.
I once shot a film for a BBC producer on 'The Herring and its Influence on European History',
being attracted as much by the title as anything else. One sequence was shot with me hanging
over the side of a Lowestoft trawler in the North Sea holding an £80,000 broadcast camera,
secured only by the sound-recordist holding onto my belt while the producer held onto him.
The crew hauled in the net by hand, with not a single fish in it, let alone a herring. It was a
scene straight out of a gritty Michael Grigsby documentary from the 1960s when the North Sea
fishing industry was already in decline. It's a wonder anybody now catches anything at
Dunwich, apart from pneumonia.
A3 (c. 16"x12") print on:
Permajet Gold Silk (£26)
Innova Soft-textured matt (£24)